In the past month, two residential assistants (RAs) have resigned and the Office of Residential Life has fired one RA. Residential Life accused the students of attending parties on campus and failing to report violations of conduct guidelines.
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Students and faculty reacted to the news of the current Metro Transit bus drivers’ strike by searching for new ways to get around the Twin Cities.
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White anti-racist activist Tim Wise addressed a nearly filled John B. Davis lecture hall on Tuesday, March 9. His lecture, entitled “How Will Race Impact the 2004 Elections? The Politics of Prejudice: Racial Scapegoating in America” received a standing ovation from the audience.
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Karin Shepardson ’86, the World Bank’s senior regional coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean addressed a group of approximately 40 students, faculty and community members on March 4.
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First, I would like to thank everyone who has responded to my article from the Feb. 27 issue (“Comparisons with Carleton on Minority Students Inaccurate”). No, really! One of the problems that our campus has sometimes is a lack of open dialogue about things that are very important to large numbers of students. One of the respondents, Hannah Palmer, remarked that many of these issues (raised by Erik Morales in his column “Quietly and Mostly to Myself”) are often discussed in the Cultural House basement. If nothing else, this dialogue has gotten these issues out in the open, where the entire campus can read about them and discuss them.
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Politics has arrived at a bizarre impasse. On one hand we are in the midst of Johnism. One John is ugly—no, hideously Botox-able, but electable. Another John is a saucy southerner who talked about two Americas while surprisingly not referring to secession. Meanwhile, an unrelated John’s bile duct is in serious peril. However, some oppose the four-letter name hegemony, most visibly the Dennises and Ralphs of the world. We are led to believe in a John/DenRalph dichotomy, one in which we must choose between the steady fist of John or the righteous arm-flail of Ralph. However, those who unconditionally take sides in the Johnnie vs. DenRalph debate foolishly overlook the little-known allegory of salt.
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For four weeks now, The Mac Weekly has featured arguments regarding Macalester’s policy of attracting domestic minorities. Others are in a better position than myself to judge Macalester’s record of admitting and retaining domestic minority students. However, I believe that a large reason for the alienation felt by numerous members of minority groups—whether international, domestic minority or GLBT students—is the existence of the organizations whose fundamental roles were to give them a sense of belonging. I speak, of course, of cultural organizations.
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Men’s basketball forward Ben Van Thorre ’04 was named MIAC Player of the Year for the 2003-2004 season. Van Thorre helped lead the Scots to their highest winning total in program history. The Scots won 18 games and placed second in the MIAC playoffs.
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In the nerve-wracking world of track and field, a split second or a quarter of an inch can separate the champions from the chumps. In Collegeville, Minn., last weekend, the Macalester men’s and women’s indoor track & field squads competed in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) championships and walked away successful enough to keep them excited for the spring outdoor season.
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Chris Jandro is a senior from Northfield, Minn. Last Sunday I met with him in the Campus Center. He had a cold, but was gracious enough to sit and talk with me before doing some more hippie things.
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I know it’s the golden rule of medical ethics—a doctor doesn’t date his patients—but, in all fairness, I wasn’t even a doctor at the time. I was still a veterinary assistant, fresh out of high school, ripe for the picking. And, while he may have been more dog than human, I was pretty sure I’d never find a partner so caring ever again. They called him Buckles. I called him sweetheart. We hit it off from the get-go.
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he next day, while Johnny walked to anatomy class, he couldn’t stop thinking about his steamy encounter with Dr. Jewels in the shower room. How was he going to hold down his boner in class listening to Dr. Jewels talk about bodily functions for a whole hour? And how was he going to keep himself from running out of the classroom in embarrassment? He was nervous.
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Dear Dhruva,
After some deliberation, I’ve decided not to publish your review of The Passion of the Christ. Bear in mind that this has little to do with the content; in fact, I thought the piece was very well-written on the whole. I liked that you looked at the movie as a work of art first and a religious tract second––something that many pundits (both left and right, atheist and devout) have forgotten.
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For those of you that do not know it, the Nordic countries are Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and, left in the middle of the ocean on their own, Iceland. Åland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland can come too, but they are in fact very small and under colonial rule. This part of Europe is so far north that no one would be able to live there was it not for the Gulf Stream (think northern Canada) and is usually considered communist, cold and crazy, for various reasons. Music has always been one way to keep us warm—I feel no need to mention the others.
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His name is Ben Kweller but you can call him BK. The Texan-raised, Brooklyn-based singer seems to have fulfilled the “Ben” singer-songwriter complex as found in Ben Folds and Ben Lee, which, coincidentally or in conspiracy, have recorded together under the name The Bens. BK’s voice has a quality similar to Ben Folds. It’s not a good voice, and sometimes strained and not quite on pitch, but it works for the type of music they play. The similarities don’t end there—both play piano. As for Ben Lee, both his and BK’s songs are constructed in a similar fashion, back to guitar and melody-centric pop rock.
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Matty Tucker ’04 is in the kitchen, Bad Comedy style. The comic student organization hosted its own “In the Kitchen” on Tuesday in the Cultural House. The event was called “Comedy across cultures.” Photo by Peter Bartz-Gallagher.
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